Bran Mac Born's NTW3 v9.0 Single Player Campaign AI Settings

[janat008]

9.2 is out. Also trade is destroyed, playing a naval nation is pointless. Goods cost 3rd of their price.

[janat008]

Between trade ship caps, and those prices you may as well delete your navy.

Lord Davn~ The idea was to help keep the AI focused on the land battles and slow down to exponential economic growth from all of the trade routes being exploited by the Major factions.

[janat008]

According to the discord channel the launcher will now push small updates for mp balance and stuff.

[dogukan]

is there a version for 9.2?

I just need somewhat faster combat

[Lord Davn]

is there a version for 9.2?

Bran has not released his version for the NTW3 v92 campaign mod yet. Although the blob problem that everyone was working on has now been fixed thanks to Lord Wesley

[Zeon26]

If I played this MOD on VH/VH would I be missing out on anything that the mod has to offer.

[Lord Davn]

The recommended settings are shown below. Higher settings for Campaign Difficulty will make your allies turn on you and fight everyone. The Battle difficulty increases the AI stats, Hard is a good setting for a challenge, Very Hard makes the AI units into supermen

[NextToYou]

Is there any way to have Brans submod but with NTW3 original spacing between men in lines and original fatigue? Because I like what he did but I really prefer the more realistic formations and fatigue.

[Lord Davn]

His stats & his mod, Bran will have to answer that ?

[thecandyo]

Any word on a 9.2 version?

[Bran Mac Born]

I am working on this now. But the format is different from the last version. They keep changing it. Need feedback from Lord Davn about this.

[thecandyo]

Alright, thanks for quick reply. For now will be playing 9.0.

[Lord Davn]

Alright, thanks for quick reply. For now will be playing 9.0.

We're working on a NTW3 v92 prussia update to include time period uniforms (1806) for Prussian units. It should be completed fairly soon so Bran can update the newer release

[Nyocrizx]

Hi, would it be possible for you to make a version for singleplayer custom battle ai? I'm too lazy to do a campaign rn so I just want do some small battles. The AI is completely atrocious, it also spawns in columns.

[Lord Davn]

Use the Play Battle feature (bottom of list) on the campaign selection menu. We've made improvements to the battle AI by eliminating the blob and adding updated group_formation files. The AI does ah better job now of organizing it units to do battle and there's the option to invite friends for online MP Battles.

[Baillie]

So am I best off using NTW3 9.3 without this submod, or NTW3 9.1 with this submod?

Is blobbing an issue still in NTW3 9.1 with the submod?

Thanks!

[Lord Davn]

Lord Wesley fixed the blob issue for the current NTW3_v92 so it's your option if you want to add Bran's submod

[Bran Mac Born]

UPDATED TO 9.3

[Sirin11895]

So I've been playing around with the pack files and I find it makes a huge difference if you use Bran's fix and remove the fog of war mechanic. It seems to really confuse the AI. Personally, I never really liked this feature even in multiplayer - I don't think it adds very much to gameplay, and it detracts considerably from realism (why wouldn't you be able to see a huge enemy unit right in front of you?). Maybe I'm in the minority though; I admit it's probably impossible to make the FOW less extreme in Napoleon.

Anyway, it seems like it would be easy enough in future mod versions to remove this feature entirely for just the single-player campaign mode, since it adds so much to the experience. Until and unless that happens though, it's easy enough to fix yourself with Pack File Manager: download Bran's modded db file, then open it in PFM; open the 'db' directory, scroll down to the 'unit_stats_land_tables' directory, then open the 'unit_stats_land_ntw3' file. Scroll right until you see the 'can_stalk' ability column. In NTW3, most units have this as 'true'. Simply uncheck the boxes for all units EXCEPT those in the 'inf-skirm' category, near the bottom. Copy-pasting the 'false' value is the easiest way I think.

NB: I don't think this will affect multiplayer as this particular file is in a separate campaign folder, but I haven't checked so you may want to back up the db.pack beforehand if you want to switch to multiplayer. I also highly recommend Napoleon Total Flags or another flag mod to enhance the SP experience.

[FastFort21]

Hi, I am trying to install it and I thought it worked, but I do not see the Pack/Europe part of the folder in 9.3. Also, I do not know how to overwrite the files. Can you please help me? I really want to play this mod. Thank you.